The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-07-22
Every Morning Except Sundays.
SUBSCRIPTIONS 4:
THE BEAUTY OF THE FAMILY:
Generally Arrogant, Selfish, Vain and
Discontented-Her Final Fate.

Generally Arrogant, Selfish, Vain and
Observation-Disclosures Final Fate.
There is one in most families, believe
certainly in nearly all large families, and
my opinion is that the family beauty is a
mistake of nature. with which opinion
have no doubt many others viii agree, es-
pecially those who have had, or are hav-
ing, experience with one. Sometimes the
beauty is really beautiful or handsome,
sometimes only so by comparison with
the other members of the family, and
sometimes (and this is not seldom no one
with unprejudiced eyes can see any beauty
whatever in the much admired person.
The beauty is always arrogant, whether
consciously or not, always selfish, and al
WAYS vain. She is made so much of,
from the time she is a baby upward, and
told so often that she is pretty, that she
could not well help it.
They may do nearly, if not quite, as
they like, and their faults are excused in
way which Ito any one but their ad-
miring relatives) is perfectly ridiculous,
because they are $50 pretty" Speak of
their audacity, selfshness, rudeness,
thOughtlessness, carelessness, disregard
for the feelings of others, disrespectful-
ness, or, in fact, any other quality which
in plain person would be thought repre-
hensible, and the answer is very likely to
be: Yes, yes, know it is so sometimes,
but then she is SO pretty, you know,
and so we must put up with their rude
ness, carelessness, or any of their above
mentioned faults, and be dOmineered over
simply because they are $50 pretty.
And then the parents and other relatives
of the beauty will often be partial to
in way which is very unfair to the other
members of the family, for it is very hard
to know that father and mother"
are prouder of So-and-So than they are
of you, because she q the most beautiful,
although most likely you are far the most
obedient and respectful.
And these beauties so often seem to
spend their lives in giving oEoHble and
sorrow for all the love and admiration
they receive. knew gentleman once
who, in speaking of a beautiful little
child to a near relative, said land he was
old enough to know, ''She is very
pretty; so pretty that she will give
plenty of heartaches, and, although still
very young, she has verified his predic-
tons many times, and seems in a fair
way to do so many times more. And yet
these beauties are to be pitied, for, al
though they make other people miser-
able, they also make themselves so, for
they are nearly always Disconnected. A
''family beauty is never so happy as the
palmer ones, for she expects SO much adj
miration and attention that what she does
receive seems very little, and there are
ten chances to one that she viii do one
of three things. Perhaps she will marry
while still almost a child for with all her
beauty she generally has great fear of
not getting married), and disappoints the
high hopes which her great beauty has
raised in the minds of her friends by set
Ting down into a disconnected, common
place woman, and soon fretting all her
beauty away. Or she may slight and re-
ject al her chances until she realizes
that she has passed her premier jue-
nesse, . and then takes the first one that
offers himself, and 50 averts the terrible
danger of becoming what the popular
phrase terms an "old maid" or, most
likely Of all, stay unmarried all her life,
for it is a well known fact that more
pretty women stay single than plain ones.
and it is all owing to the fact that they
expect more than their more modest,
if palmer, sisters. 1t is these disap-
pointed beauties who make up in
great measure, the great army of typical
"old maids, for their annoyance at not
marrying well is in proportion to their
pride Of beauty. and it naturally sours
their temper. Chicago Times.